What is the state of Microcontroller support in d?

[Dan Walmsley via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 April 2016 at 03:38:01 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote:
> So, for me one of the greatest things about d is that it is 
> compiled to machine language. But It makes me sad that this 
> strength doesn't seem to be available in one of the most 
> obvious places.
>
> [...]
Hi you still around, I'm starting to investigate these issues and 
see if I can start using D in some of my embedded projects at my 
company. I've got stuck at the hurdle of trying to use minilibd 
with Ldc compiler, did you make progress since this post?,